Will this actually help you?
Run the numbers
Your numbers
Total hours your team spends on this process every week.
How many people touch this process regularly.
Fully-loaded cost of an hour of their time.
How often the manual process produces a mistake that costs time to fix.
The verdict
Worth building
This process is costing you roughly $5,513 a year across labor and rework. A custom build pays back in about 3.9 months.
Annual labor cost
Time spent on the process
Annual cost of errors
Rework from mistakes
Total annual cost
Labor + errors
Payback period
At a $1,807 build
This models the fully-loaded cost of keeping a process manual. Treat it as a floor, not a ceiling. Real software also reduces onboarding time and error blast radius. Neither is priced in here.
Want a straight answer on whether this is worth doing?